ABSTRACT
Singapore is a case study of original authenticity being given up and of various versions of both the ‘West’ and ‘Asia’ begin used to reterritorialize cultural space. It is clear that an authentic culture as an autonomous and internally coherent universe is no longer sustainable in either the advanced or the lessadvanced worlds – except, perhaps, as a simple yardstick as to what possessing a modern culture truly means, with the implication that non-Western societies will never attain that standard.
